-am

-am

1. Postconsonantal form of -əm after the vowels A / I / O / U.

Inherited from Latin -āmen, variant of -men, a noun-forming suffix.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈam]

-am m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ams)

1. (often pejorative) indicates a collectivity

   ‎mosquit (“mosquito”) + ‎-am → ‎mosquitam (“swarm of mosquitos”)

   ‎trast (“piece of junk”) + ‎-am → ‎trastam (“junk”)

• -im
• -um

• “-am”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Initially, the correlatives for time ended with -an instead of -am: kian, tian, ian, ĉian, nenian instead of the modern kiam, tiam, iam, ĉiam, neniam. Zamenhof left a one-year period (from Esperanto's creation in 1887 to 1888) during which changes to Esperanto could be proposed. After that year, the only change that was made was changing the time correlatives from -an to -am due to the risk of confusion with correlatives ending with -a + the accusative ending -n. The forms with -an are no longer used, but they can be found in a few older texts from that one-year period. This is the only reform proposal that has ever been successfully implemented into Esperanto.^[1]

-am

1. suffix for correlatives of time

• IPA^(key): [ɒm]

-am

2. (possessive suffix) my (first-person singular, single possession)

   ház (“house”) → a házam (“my house”)

• (possessive suffix) Variants:

  -m is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.

  ‎hajó (“boat”) + ‎-m → ‎a hajóm (“my boat”)

  ‎kocsi (“car”) + ‎-m → ‎a kocsim (“my car”)

  ‎palota (“palace”) + ‎-m → ‎a palotám (“my palace”)

  ‎érme (“coin”) + ‎-m → ‎az érmém (“my coin”)

  -am is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎ház (“house”) + ‎-am → ‎a házam (“my house”)

  -om is added to the other back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎kor (“age”) + ‎-om → ‎a korom (“my age”)

  -em is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎kert (“garden”) + ‎-em → ‎a kertem (“my garden”)

  ‎fül (“ear”) + ‎-em → ‎a fülem (“my ear”)

  -öm is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎öröm (“joy”) + ‎-öm → ‎az örömöm (“my joy”)

-am

2. (noun-forming suffix) Added to a noun or a verb to form a noun. A final single -l may become long -ll-.

   ‎áll (“to stand”) + ‎-am → ‎állam (“state”)

   ‎dal (“song”) + ‎-am → ‎dallam (“tune”)

   ‎hoz (“to bring”) + ‎-am → ‎hozam (“yield”)

   ‎tart (“to hold”) + ‎-am → ‎tartam (“span as in lifespan”)

• (noun-forming suffix) Variants:

  -am is added to back-vowel words

  -em is added to front-vowel words

• Category:Hungarian noun forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈam]

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂m (accusative singular of *-éh₂). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic -ѫ (-ǫ).

-am

1. accusative feminine singular of -us
2. accusative singular of -a

A conjugated form of -ō (suffix forming third-conjugation verbs).

-am

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of -ō (third conjugation)

-am

1. act on by mouth or teeth

• dakwam
• wiikwam

• asham
• -doon

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/word-part/am-final

-am

1. A suffix that acts as transitive inanimate verb (vti) class marker

-am appears on Type 2 animate intransitive verbs (vai2).

• -an

• Ojibwe People's Dictionary
• Anishinaabemodaa
• Ontario Ministry of Education Resource Guide, Native Languages, p. 51

• IPA^(key): /əβ̃/, [aβ̃]

-am m

1. broad form of -em

   ‎oll (“great, vast”) + ‎-am → ‎ollam (“master, expert”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /-am/

-am

1. Oblique plural suffix (with a-declension nouns)

• -óom (With accent-shifting nouns)
• -éem (With ai-ending nouns)
• -úum (With accent-shifting nouns in Biori)

• Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “-am”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[2], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /-am/

-am

1. Instrumental suffix (with a-declension nouns)

• -óom (With accent-shifting nouns)
• -úum (With accent-shifting nouns in Biori)

• Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “-am”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[3], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -an, from Latin -ant. Compare Galician and Spanish -an.

• IPA^(key): /ɐ̃w̃/

-am (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

1. a suffix indicating the third-person plural present indicative of -ar

   ‎amar (“to love”) + ‎-am → ‎amam (“[They] love”)

   ‎cantar (“to sing”) + ‎-am → ‎cantam (“[They] sing”)

For verbs without any vowels in the root, -ão is used instead. (i.e. dar > dão).

• -eam (after a slender consonant)

From Old Irish -imm. The spelling indicates that the m was broad before the loss of the broad/slender distinction in labial consonants; this pronunciation arose by leveling of this ending with the broad m found in first-person singular prepositional pronouns such as agam, asam, thugam etc. Compare the Ulster pronunciation of Irish -im (first-person singular present indicative and imperative) as /əmˠ/.

• IPA^(key): /əm/

-am

1. first-person singular imperative ending of verbs

-am

1. Used to form a verbal noun.